Age: 95
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Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly", paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast Miles in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), She also starred in such films as Beau James (1957) opposite Bob Hope, The FBI Story (1959) opposite Stewart, Back Street (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and Sergeant Ryker (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Twilight Zone (1959), The Outer Limits (1963), The Fugitive (1963), My Three Sons (1960), Bonanza (1959), "Columbo" and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1983, she reprised her role as "Lila Crane" in the film sequel Psycho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins. Although, too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.
Vera Miles
Mrs. Dubose
for Mrs. Dubose in To Kill A Mockingbird Remake
Suggested by superherosuperfan
This is going to be a lot more controversial than my other stories but I don't care. If you don't know the story Scout and Jem Finch live with their father Atticus in Maycomb, Alabama; it takes place between 1933 and 1935. Scout and Jem are young and obsessed with their illusive neighbor Boo Radley who supposedly stabbed his father through the leg with a pair of scissors. Atticus is assigned the case of an innocent black man named Tom Robinson who is on trial for allegedly raping a girl named Mayella Ewell. Atticus proves in court that Tom couldn't have done it and implies that Mayella's father Bob Ewell did it. Tom Robinson is convicted despite his innocence and is killed when he tries to escape the jailyard. Bob Ewell who holds a personal vendetta against Atticus decides to try and kill the kids but Boo Radley kills him when he tries.
